Health Inequalities Key Texts

Arblaster, L., Entwistle, V., Lambert, M., et al. (1995) Review of the Research on the Effectiveness of Health Service Interventions to Reduce Variations in Health, CRD Report 3 (York, NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination).

Arblaster, L., Lambert. M., Entwistle. V., et al. (1996) A systematic review of the effectiveness of health service interventions aimed at reducing inequalities in health. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 1(2), pp. 93-103.

Benzeval M., Judge, K. & Whitehead, M. (eds) (1995) Tackling Inequalities in Health: An Agenda for Action (London, King's Fund).

Davey Smith, G., Dorling, D., Gordon, D. & Shaw M. (1999) The widening health gap: what are the solutions? Critical Public Health, 9(2), pp.151-70.

Davey Smith G., Dorling D. & Shaw M. (eds) (2001) Poverty, Inequality and Health in Britain: A Reader (Bristol, The Policy Press).

Department of Health (2003) Tackling Health Inequalities - A Programme for Action (London, Department of Health).

Department of Health and Social Security (1980) Inequalities in Health: Report of a Research Working Party (Black Report) (London, DHSS).

Exworthy M., Berney, L. & Powell, M. (2002) 'How great expectations in Westminster may be dashed locally': the local implementation of national policy on health inequalities. Policy & Politics, 30(1), pp. 79-96.

Exworthy M., Stuart M., Blane D. & Marmot M. (2003) Tackling Health Inequalities since the Acheson Report (Bristol, Policy Press).

Graham, H. (ed) (2000) Understanding Health Inequalities (Milton Keynes, Open University Press).

Hofrichter, R. (2003) Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass).

Leon, D. & Walt, G. (eds) Poverty, Inequality and Health (Oxford, Oxford University Press).

Mackenbach J. & Bakker M. (eds) (2002) Reducing Inequalities in Health: A European Perspective (London, Routledge).

Marmot, M. & Wilkinson, R. (1999) The Social Determinants of Health (Oxford, Oxford University Press).

Shaw M., Dorling D., Gordon D. & Davey Smith G. (1999) The Widening Gap: Health Inequalities and Policy in Britain (Bristol, Policy Press).

Stationary Office (1988) Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (Acheson Report) (London, The Stationery Office).

Wilkinson R. (1996) Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality (London, Routledge).